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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

@Allegra- I just watched that episode yesterday- Season 1, Episode 25. Poor old Remmick- I wouldn't wish hosting the alien parasite queen on anyone. :P For further reference, all ye who think that's a mashup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Still the best cake ever; whoever made it is a dyed (red?)-in-the-wool geek.

Must say, with all the cavalier time-traveling that happens in the Trekverse (and collisions in space with police boxes), I'm not surprised one of the timelines kinked and some poor raaaspberry shirt ended up beaming to LV-426

Years ago when "Purple Rain" was playing at our local cinema, the first P had fallen off of the sign, and the letter spacing was kind of wonky. My husband will never let me forget that I asked him what the movie "Urp Le Rain" was about. But seeing these cakes today certainly made me go "Urp." And run from the room. Ewww indeed.

I actually understand why picture #3 has "French Bread, Hot at 5 pm or Free" on it and there's not French bread in it. It's not a mistake. It may be stupid, but it's not a mistake. I immediately recognized the label for a chain of grocery stores near my home--S&?!way--and they are extremely proud of their fresh French bread. They make it daily. I have to admit, it IS pretty good, hot out of the oven. So they put those little labels on EVERYTHING in the bakery, whether it's bready or not, and have stands of bread all through the store--hey, who wants to give away bread?

I have to admit, picture 7 definitely reminded me of the frozen neck you pull out of a half frozen turkey for Thanksgiving (obviously before it's put in the oven). Also, what is up with the frosting color around the bottom edge of the cake? That color alone would be enough for me to second guess buying/eating it. :)

I also panicked when I noticed the signs were from a Price Chopper store...The Star Trek cake totally grossed me out, but then I saw the very last cake. WTH?!Definitely disemboweled. Do they think anyone would actually pay for that?

#4 You have to admire the microseconds of thought that went into the presentation, here. Bakery department management pro tip: When someone gives notice, take them off decorating and have them do something comparatively innocuous, such as making signs.

#5 I love the irony of 'serves 12'. Let's see, there are 12 people on a jury...I wonder why I went there.

#8 Reminds me of the Moonstone from Outer Limits. Which I did not see first-run.

#9 I'll have a slice without so much mouse in it. I could really go for some Spam, though.

#10 The pamphlet, 'How to Use Shiny, Red Glop in Ways That Someone Might Actually Find Appetizing' has been out of print for far too long. Think I'll order a print run and have a copy sent to every bakery in the Universe.

#11 The Unsee Machine should get a thorough workout today. Once I'm sure there aren't any bugs, I can start on the portable version.

All I thought was "why is there a penis coming out of Capt. Picard's chest?" Then realized it maybe was supposed to be the Alien monster. And then "Why is the Alien monster coming out of Capt. Picard's chest?"

And props to the commenter who made a Purple Rain Cakewrecks song. Jen needs to borrow that.

That last one was just disturbing. It looks like one of those trays they use in operating theatre trays with a bunch of intestines on it!!!! That cake should've stay back in the kitchen never to be seen by the public!

I think that's not a Star Trek TNG/Aliens mashup. It's from the episode "Conspiracies," if I'm not mistaken. Pretty sure I saw it with my brother years ago, not knowing how gross it was gonna be (having only seen tamer episodes prior to that). Avoided all TNG episodes I was unfamiliar with for a while after that.

These cakes are just....yeah, my appetite is going on hiatus for a while. x-P

Sorry...coming late to the party today (I was out late last night partying like it was 1999)...so, just a quick note to say the post and the comments were royal today! A tip o' the rassssssssssspberry puree...er...beret...to everyone!

That alien cake looks uncomfortably like a um....male organ of reproduction. Also, that shirt is all wrong; Star Trek never had something gnawing out of its chest. I demand a proper movie cliched cake! That or my money back.

I'm glad a few other Wreckies wrote about the fact that #7 is not a mashup cake, but rather from the final episode of Season 1. one of the best season 1 episodes in my opinion. I always wish they had followed up on that ending....